day 33: the puppy

Things were really, really going just fine. M finally settled down, I've figured out a way to manage daily and even enjoy myself. So when some new friends plied me with drink and then convinced me that the best thing in the world for M is a puppy, how she can grow up along with the puppy, how she needs a puppy to feel like a complete person in the universe...I go ahead and cave in.

Meet Kuhkay (Koo-Kai) which is Mayan for firefly in case that matters at all. I should also point out that I'm probably spelling it wrong but I'm a gringa in a non gringa world so bear with me.

She's nearly four months and is quite possibly the second cutest thing I have ever seen in my life. She's a mini-guard dog in training, barks at everything that comes near our porch until something gets too close then she runs and hides. She sleeps under my bed at night right next to my head. And she wakes up at 5am and she's not house trained so guess who gets up? Me! Love it!

In retrospect it was probably adding one too many things to an already precarious and adjustment filled time but sometimes you've got to go with the flow. And she's a remarkably good puppy, rather calm and listens well enough and hasn't bit M even though the child is terrorizing her every single day in every possible way.

Here's M and a friend in our backyard. Picture iguanas and toucans and parrots in those trees if you can. We had a band of wild peckory pigs come through this week, boy are those suckers loud.
And here's what our house looks like from the back patio. I know, you could never live here right? Am not always sure I can either but for now it's good. Notice how hammocks have multiple uses? And rain does sound nice on a metal roof.
In other news, everyone is sick. M has more bites than a child should ever have to endure, J and I are both down with colds. It's a lot less fun being sick where things are already more challenging, but such is life. The fabulous Maggie sent me a yoga mat, which meant so much (getting packages is fabulous I tell you) and is being put to good use as I stretch my way out of sickness and back into light.